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Blue Dasher Dragonfly

Pachydiplax longipennis

Photo by joan6153
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26.3587, -80.0831

Field Notes

Description:

This Blue Dasher dragonfly is a male with a white face, green eyes, a blue body and black and yellow stripes on his thorax. It holds its wings forward and downward while perched.

Habitat:

Along an inland fresh water canal in western Boca Raton, FL

Notes:

Several of these flitted around the bushes at the canal edge and landed on the twigs and on the algae pads on the canal water. They were about 2 inches long.

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Wildlife of the South East, USA
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Global Dragonflies & Damselflies
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Florida's Flora & Fauna
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PublishedMay 9, 2013

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